What
is interesting about the history of the Bush family
are the connections; Avril Harriman, Allen Dulles,
the Rockefellers (the start of the oil connection),
James Baker III, Gulf Oil, Pennzoil, Osama bin
LadenŠon and on it goes.

A
lapse of memory?

05/07/03:
(Information
Clearing House)It's
as well to remember that the Web never forgets,
at least the US pres should take note of this
fact and be careful of his utterances and how
they can come back to haunt him. In fact four
generations of Bush family history and too many
skeletons in too many closets to count are to
be found on the Web.

And
given all the 'pulpit pounding' (more of which
below) by ol' Duyba and his minions, over the
dubious moral character of Saddam and his cronies,
much of which has underpinned the justification
for the invasion and occupation of Iraq, it's
as well to compare the two sets of rogues. Not
surprisingly, there's little to choose between
the two except that, in the case of the Bush gang,
they have a 'pedigree' in perfidy which extends
back almost a century and four generations that
makes Saddam look positively angelic by comparison.

Prescott
Bush ­ setting a family example

In
a previous
piece a quote I used mentioned Prescott Bush
the present pres's
granpa so I decided to do a little researching
to see what other dirty little secrets the Bush
family have hidden in the dark recesses of the
WWW and lo and behold, there's a load of stuff
out there (7,630 links to be precise, according
to good ol' google just on granpa Prescott Bush).

Geronimo!

It's
1918 and, well you know students, they're always
up to innocent pranks. It seems Grandpa Bush set
his grandson some fine family precedents starting
with digging up Geronimo's skull,

"In
1918, Prescott Bush and two companions crept
into the cemetery near Fort Sill and pried
open the grave of Geronimo.

The
head was taken out, spiffed up and forwarded
to New Haven, where it was given pride of
place for goofy rituals that have been attended
by generations of Bushes and a veritable army
of powerful types."

The
Apache nation (what was left of it anyway) was
not amused. Okay, we'll forgive granpa Bush his
'juvenile pranks' but it seems that this set the
scene for the rest of his miserable life until
his death in 1972 from carcinoma of the lung.

From
skulls to Zyklon B (and back again)

But
it seems that great-granpa George Walker was also
in on the business of making money out of death
(like great-granpa like great grand-son),

"George
Walker, GW's great-grandfather, also set up
the takeover of the Hamburg-America Line,
a cover for I.G. Farben's Nazi espionage unit
in the United States. In Germany, I.G. Farben
was most famous for putting the gas in gas
chambers; it was the producer of Zyklon B
and other gasses used on victims of the Holocaust.
The Bush family was not unaware of the nature
of their investment partners. They hired Allen
Dulles, the future head of the CIA, to hide
the funds they were making from Nazi investments
and the funds they were sending to Nazi Germany,
rather than divest."

It
just doesn't stop does it, as Prescott Bush, son
of George continued in the 'grand tradition' of
skullduggery by also doing deals with the Nazis,

"On
October 20, 1942, the US Alien Property Custodian,
under the "Trading With the Enemy Act,"
seized the shares of the Union Banking Corporation
(UBC), of which Prescott Bush was a director
and shareholder. The largest shareholder was
E. Roland Harriman. (Bush was also the managing
partner of Brown Brothers Harriman, a leading
Wall Street investment firm.)

"The
UBC was established to send American capital
to Germany to finance the reorganization of
its industry under the Nazis. Their leading
German partner was the notorious Nazi industrialist
Fritz Thyssen, who wrote a book admitting
much of this called "I Paid Hitler."

"Among
the companies financed was the Silesian-American
Corporation, which was also managed by Prescott
Bush, and by his father-in-law George Herbert
Walker, who supplied Dub-a-Ya with his name.
The company was vital in supplying coal to
the Nazi war industry. It too was seized as
a Nazi-front on November 17, 1942. The largest
company Bush's UBC helped finance was the
German Steel Trust, responsible for between
one-third and one-half of Nazi iron and explosives.

"Prescott
Bush was also a director of the Harriman Fifteen
Corporation, (this one owned largely by Roland's
brother, Averell Harriman), which owned about
a third of the Consolidated Silesian Steel
Corporation, the rest owned by Friedrich Flick,
(a member of Himmler's "Circle of Friends"
who donated to the S.S.)."

What
is interesting about the history of the Bush family
are the connections; Avril Harriman, Allen Dulles,
the Rockefellers (the start of the oil connection),
James Baker III, Gulf Oil, Pennzoil, Osama bin
LadenŠon and on it goes. It looks like this'll
have to be part one of an on-going series on the
Bush dynasty and their dirty dealings.

Double
Dutch?

The
story of steel magnate and billionaire bankroller
of the Nazis, Fritz Thyssen and his Bush family
connection is so incredible, that it deserves
to be turned into a movie (obviously not by Hollywood).
It all starts with John Loftus, a former U.S.Department
of Justice Nazi War Crimes prosecutor who is the
source of the following,

"From
1945 until 1949, one of the lengthiest and,
it now appears, most futile interrogations
of a Nazi war crimes suspect began in the
American Zone of Occupied GermanyŠ. [The interrogation
of] [m]ultibillionaire steel magnate Fritz
Thyssen-the man whose steel combine was the
cold heart of the Nazi war machine."

They
were trying to find out what had happened to Thyssen's
billions but without success. Why?

"What
the Allied investigators never understood
was that they were not asking Thyssen the
right question. Thyssen did not need any foreign
bank accounts because his family secretly
owned an entire chain of banks. He did not
have to transfer his Nazi assets at the end
of World War II, all he had to do was transfer
the ownership documents - stocks, bonds, deeds
and trusts--from his bank in Berlin through
his bank in Holland to his American friends
in New York City, Prescott Bush and Herbert
Walker. Thyssen's partners in crime were the
father and father-in-law of a future President
of the United States [my emph. WB].

"The
British and American interrogators may have
gravely underestimated Thyssen but they nonetheless
knew they were being lied to. Their suspicions
focused on one Dutch Bank in particular, the
Bank voor Handel enScheepvaart, in Rotterdam.
This bank did a lot of business with the Thyssens
over the years. In 1923, as a favor to him,
the Rotterdam bank loaned the money to build
the very first Nazi party headquarters in
Munich.

"If
the investigators realized that the US intelligence
chief in postwar Germany, Allen Dulles, was
also the Rotterdam bank's lawyer, they might
have asked some very interesting questions.
They did not know that Thyssen was Dulles'
client [my emph. WB] as well. Nor did
they ever realize that it was Allen Dulles's
other client, Baron Kurt Von Schroeder who
was the Nazi trustee for the Thyssen companies
which now claimed to be owned by the Dutch
[my emph. WB]. The Rotterdam Bank was at the
heart of Dulles' cloaking scheme, and he guarded
its secrets jealously.

"[T]he
Dutch connection remained unexplored until
1994 when I published the book "The Secret
War Against the Jews." As a matter of
historical curiosity, I mentioned that Fritz
Thyssen (and indirectly, the Nazi Party) had
obtained their early financing from Brown
Brothers Harriman [my emph. WB], and its
affiliate, the Union Banking Corporation.
Union Bank, in turn, was the Bush family's
holding company for a number of other entities,
including the "Holland American Trading
Company."

There
are so many twists and turns to this story, that
this is not the place to to go into all the labyrinthine
links between the Nazis, the Bush Family and the
CIA (via Allen Dulles) or indeed, a host of other
corporate connections. But this final quote from
the same source, gives you an idea of just how
much money is involved,

"The
enormous sums of money deposited into the
Union Bank prior to 1942 is the best evidence
that Prescott Bush knowingly served as a money
launderer for the Nazis. Remember that Union
Banks' books and accounts were frozen by the
U.S. Alien Property Custodian in 1942 and
not released back to the Bush family until
1951. At that time, Union Bank shares representing
hundreds of millions of dollars worth of industrial
stocks and bonds were unblocked for distribution.
Did the Bush family really believe that such
enormous sums came from Dutch enterprises?
One could sell tulip bulbs and wooden shoes
for centuries and not achieve those sums.
A fortune this size could only have come from
the Thyssen profits made from rearming the
Third Reich, and then hidden, first from the
Nazi tax auditors, and then from the Allies."

For
the full story please go to the link above.

Crocodile
tears

All
of which makes the following quote from Dubya
all the more sickening,

"In
April 1999, [then] Texas Governor George W.
Bush proclaimed a week of remembrance for
the Holocaust. He said, "I urge Texans
to never forget the inhumanity of those who
perpetrated the Holocaust, and reflect upon
our own humanity and our responsibility to
respect all peoples."

Like
granpa like grand-son? Well given where Dubya
got his money from, and his continuing in the
'grand tradition of the Bush gang, I'm feeling
quite biblical about things, so I thought following,

Short
diversion

Would
be useful. I know there will be some among you
who think I've just got it in for the Bushes,
so in my wanderings over the Web, I came across
this little gem from this web
site:

"Duty,
Honor, Country

The
Life and Legacy of Prescott Bush

By
Mickey Herskowitz

This
paean to the life of Prescott Bush, by a conservative
writer is a salutory warning to us all. I quote,

"He
[Prescott Bush] was a unifier, not a divider.
And he was of such high integrity [sic] that
behind the scenes was where he was at his
best. He was a man of great faith. His grandfather
was a minister whose faith and integrity were
fully ingrained in the Bush family. Prescott
always emphasized honesty, charity, fairness
and proactive dedication to God, family and
country."

From
a review by Susan Kurz.

I
could go on quoting, but I'm afraid I'll throw
up. Check it out for yourself at Townhall.com
which is, by the way, "the first truly interactive
community on the Internet to bring Internet users,
conservative public policy organizations, congressional
staff, and political activists together under
the broad umbrella of "conservative"
thoughts, ideas and actions."

There's
none so blind as those that refuse to see.

From
Eugenicist to anti-abortionist

Not
content with digging up the ancestors, supporting
Fascism, laundering Nazi money through a Dutch-based
bank, selling weapons to the mullahs of Iran,
trading guns for drugs, doing business deals with
Osama bin Laden, the Bush family in the form of
ol' granpa Prescott was an early supporter of
the Eugenics movement (or racial purity, to give
it its real name). And a rather embarassing connection
it is too, as Bush Snr discovered,

"...And
the Birth Control League was there, which
had long trumpeted the need for eugenical
births--fewer births for parents with "inferior"
bloodlines. Prescott [Bush's] partner Tighe
was a Connecticut director of the league,
and the Connecticut league's medical advisor
was eugenics advocate Dr. Winternitz of Yale
Medical School.

Now
in 1950, people who knew something about Prescott
Bush knew that he had very unsavory roots
in the eugenics movement. There were then,
just after the anti-Hitler war, few open advocates
of sterilization of "unfit" or "unnecessary"
people. (That would be revived later, with
the help of General Draper and his friend
George Bush

Then,
very late in the 1950 senatorial campaign,
Prescott Bush was publicly exposed for being
an activist in that section of the old fascist
eugenics movement. Prescott Bush lost the
election by about 1,000 out of 862,000 votes

In
his foreword to a population control propaganda
book, George Bush wrote about that 1950 election:
"My own first awareness of birth control
as a public policy issue came with a jolt
in 1950 when my father was running for United
States Senate in Connecticut. Drew Pearson,
on the Sunday before Election day, 'revealed'
that my father was involved with Planned Parenthood....
Many political observers felt a sufficient
number of voters were swayed by his alleged
contacts with the birth controllers to cost
him the election...."

The
Bush story is such a fascinating history of capitalist
corruption and power that it needs to be presented
to a public that is consistently lied to, not
only by the corporate media but by our so-called
leaders. In Part Two, I'm going to give you the
low-down on the Bush family's involvement in the
scams and dealings of the Reagan years, the Iran-Contra
scandal and one of the biggest rip-offs in history,
the savings and loan scandal, which cost the US
taxpayer literally trillions of dollars. Yeah,
you read right, trillions!

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